In the small recent cabinet reshuffle where, Finance and Media Ministry was assigned to Mangala Samaraweera and Foreign Ministry portfolio was given to Ravi Karunanayake, on request made by him National Lotteries Board (NLB) and Development Lotteries Board(DLB) were brought under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .
Since, Ravi Karunanayake has resigned from his Foreign Ministry portfolio, a gazette notification has been issued enabling the transfer of the Development and National Lotteries Boards back to the Ministry of Finance.